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At last.
I intentionally stopped using it. So. “I’m doing my part!”
They have become more an Ad-verb in recent years.
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Natural consequence of 1) google being shit, and 2) “looking something up” and similar phrases automatically meaning the internet. No one is going to assume the library anymore.
I miss the encyclopedia I had growing up. It was huge - like 5 inches thick. It knew everything and never let me down. And there were no ads or cookie banners to click out of.
Altavista crew!
I’m “ask jeevesing” it
I’ll ask Lycos to fetch it.
PLEASE keep calling it “googling it”, even if you use other search engines. If enough of us do that, then Google can lose the copyright to their name
It’s a trademark not copyright. You don’t lose copyright but a trademark can be diluted to meaninglessness. Still would be funny for them to have to say: “Google brand search” like “Kleenex brand tissues”!
Ooh, I like how you think
SEO clutter is making “google it” smugposting more and more empty every day.
They went from a great tech shop where engineering excellence was the main driver to a strictly ad business the moment MBAs took over. Story as old as SV capitalism. They did the same to Boeing, HP and many others.
IBM comes to mind
Intel too
Ed Zitron has a nice write-up ‘The man who killed Google search’ here.
I’ve started using “search it” or “kagi it” just to avoid using the term google. I can’t even remember the last time I used Google on purpose and got useful results.
When you say “kagi it” does anyone ever know what you’re talking about?
I didn’t know that word. So I duckduckwent it.
I binged it. Still don’t understand.
I think maybe 1-2 people in my entire time of doing it, but now at least the people I talk to regularly in software engineering know.
I know Kagi has its drama, but I can’t get past how useful it has been to me. I did get a new home lab server recently so I may start setting up something for SearXNG.
I’ve been ducking for years never say that though. I use search or looked up.
Google played themselves by making an autocorrect that wouldn’t swear.
Hey - I should found a business named Thus.
…we need to make “Duck it up!” the new “Google it.”
I fondly remember Beaucoup, mostly because of the boundless optimism necessary to assume Americans could spell Beaucoup.
You know I never realized this until reading the article. I do find myself saying “look it up” more nowadays than when I used to say “Google it.”
yeah, most people just search on their phones and/or using their browser. they usually use whatever the default is and don’t question it much.
it’s moved off of Google sometimes, and when it hasn’t it’s not obviously labeled as Google. especially when they use siri or ok Google or any other newer interface for it.
